ISLAMABAD - Former president Asif Ali Zardari yesterday said that freedom was the basic right of the Kashmiris.
In a message on Kashmir Solidarity Day, the former President said the Kashmir, free of Indian occupation according to the will of Kashmiris, was part of the manifesto of the Pakistan People’s Party.
He said the PPP had a history of support for Kashmir cause. “Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Benazir Bhutto raised Kashmir issue at every forum in the world,” he added.
Zardari said that liberation from Indian occupation and exploitation was a basic and democratic right of Kashmiri people. PPP has always advocated solution of Kashmir issue through UN resolutions.
Meanwhile, PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari strongly condemned blasts in Kashmir Solidarity Day rallies in Quetta and Sibbi and termed the tormentors as stooges of Butcher of Gujarat Narendra Modi.
In a statement, the PPP Chairman demanded that the authorities take every action to find the terrorists involved in blood-shed of innocent people and bring them to justice.
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari expressed sympathies with the families of victims who were martyred and injured in the terror blasts in two cities. “I understand the pain of losing dear ones in terrorist attacks,” he said and prayed for early recovery of the wounded.